Looks cheap. A bass from www.rondomusic.com would be a better bet. Some cheap basses are rather good for the money...and some straight up suck. If you're doing a blind buy than you're really rolling the dice.

I guess this means my only value to NASA would be if they want to start a band.

And way, the millimeters are the same size in Cincinnati as elsewhere.. its our clocks that are a little different. Mark Twain claimed that we are about 50 year behind the times (and that he would live longer because of it) that is probably closer to the truth than any comment about measurements.